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| Photo courtesy Sezin Koehler |
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Tears from heaven, butterflies the size of condors
a bathtub drain as compass, swirling whirling
stream of scented water, consciousness finding a way
to the tide, the waves. Beached whales floating
back to the pod, playing with octopuses, embraced by
countless arms, swimming with mermaids
bound for heavenly parties between silhouettes
of trees, growing upside down in Australia, or
was it all happening in your mind, high
on herbal essence, clouds of steamy goodwill
Love in the air, no need to put a word on paper
Words multiply and mate forming never ending
Stories waiting to be told
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This is no labored poem, just my comment in response to Sezin Koehler's post "This is what my blog looks like on writer's block".
When you visit her blog now, you won't see the image, it's not show as illustration with her blog post. "Let the Spirit Lead" was the header of an earlier blog design.
What do YOU see when you look at art?
Illustration © Sezin Koehler, author of American Monsters
This work by Judith van Praag is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
5 comments:
"I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse"
Beryl Markham
I had a post that was blank and this is what I came up with.
Interesting thought Savy and thanks for stopping by again!
Took me a while before I got Beryl Markham's words though (probably because I respond from the p.o.v. of the creator, the artist, the writer). Only when I linked "impulse" to buying, did I get the idea. You'd either enjoy what you bought for years to come, or you'd be stuck with a mismatched item in your collection/ wardrobe.
PS Sezin's post IS blank, but what about the artwork that adorns her Website/Blog above the empty window?
Her Art work is beautiful and does re ignites the light within to be inspired!
R.M.Albèrt writes from Amsterdam that he read the text with interest and attention. There was something about this post that didn't quite sit right with him though.
"It's not clear whether whether it's prose or poetry," he realized after a few days. "Was that deliberate?" he wondered, suggesting that adjustment of white space and punctuation could produce an attractive image.
R.M.Albèrt looked at the text as an artwork: "Poems are [offer] beside sound also image" something I had not counted on, for my words were an immediate response to the visual art on Sezin's home page.
A poem usually takes shape over time, from rough to refined. Writers often revisit their writing years after they first entrusted the words to paper. If time (deadline) permits, they do in effect well to put their writing aside for at least a night.
So what about publishing text immediately after it's been conceived? Why expose oneself to the scrutiny of the careful reader?
Meanwhile Sezin has moved to Cologne/ Köln/ Keulen and if you ask me, her new place of residence provides plenty of fodder for writing.
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